The 35th edition of Soup and Science was held on campus from Monday March 6-10. Students and community members heard from outstanding Æ»¹ûÒùÔº professors and student speakers across disciplines talk about their research program in lightning-style talks, followed by active discussions.Ìý
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Monday March 6
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Department of Chemistry
Sustainable Nanomaterials
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
High-dimensional optimization with applications to machine learning
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Department of Physics
Majorna fermions in condensed matter
Prof. Darius Scott
Department of Geography
Conceptualizing health at the intersection of stigma and racism
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Sally Yao (Student Speaker)
Department of Chemistry
Improving nuclease resistance of nucleic acid strands with small molecule supramolecular assembly
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Tuesday March 7
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Clouds in a changing climate
Department of Physics
Quantum mechanics of black holes
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Department of Psychology
Large-scale computational models of cognition
School of Computer Science
Leveling up citizen science
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Sloane Sirota (Student Speaker)
Department of Physics
Observation of strange particles at the large hadron collider
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Wednesday March 8
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
What are microbes eating and why
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Everything everywhere all the time: environmental monitoring and undergraduate science
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Department of Geography
New cities lab
Sascha Woolcott (Student Speaker)
Department of Chemistry
The potential of quatsomes as disinfectants with improved anti-biofilm activity
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Thursday March 9
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Leacock 232
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Using isotopes to understand methane emissions: from thawing permafrost to the oil sandsÌý
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Interactions between geometry, statistics, and quantum theory
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Prof. Brian Robinson
Department of Geography
Livelihoods, environment, and development
Department of Chemistry
Following the prenylome in cancer - what have we learned and where are we going?
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Sativa Kawakami (Student Speaker)
Department of Biology
Learning as we go: adaptive methodology for a bio-cultural survey along portage paths of Kitcisakik
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Friday March 10
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, McConnell Engineering Room 304
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Randomness in infinite dimensions
School of Computer Science
Machine learning for genomics and healthcare
Department of Physiology
Cardiac Ionics and dynamics
Prof. John White
Department of Physiology
Links between vitamin D and autoimmunity: the smoking gun
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Antoine Moitessier (Student Speaker)
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Evaluating aptamers as DNA repair inhibitors
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Previous Editions
Visit the pages below for information on previous editions of Soup and Science.
- 34th edition: September 2022
- 33rd edition: January 2022
- 32nd edition: Fall 2021
- Sun and Science: July 2021
- 31st edition: February 2021
- 30th edition: September 2020
- Sun and Science: May - August 2020
- 29th edition: January 2020
- 28th edition: September 2019
- 27th edition: January 2019
- 26th edition: September 2018
- 25th edition: January 2018